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  1. Re:Ruining it for everyone on Researcher Evan Booth: How To Weaponize Tax-Free Airport Goods · · Score: 1

    That would be the heaviest nail clippers ever.

  2. Re:talent! on H-1B Cap Reached Today; Didn't Get In? Too Bad · · Score: 1

    You have tech skills, but you don't have any people network skills. Put your resume on Linked-in and start linking to everyone you used to know in university, college and previous jobs. Create a web site and start a Free project or join the Linux kernel developers and blog about your work on your own web site. After a few months, you will have a job.

  3. Terrible ride quality on Fusion Rocket Could Take Us To Mars · · Score: 1

    So, this thing will go WHUMP! once a minute? It will be the most annoying and uncomfortable journey ever and forget of sleeping.

  4. Re:Yuh huh on Fusion Rocket Could Take Us To Mars · · Score: 1

    You can also make a really long space ship, with the engine at the far end. Most radiation will then miss the front end.

  5. Re:Cat ears... on Mobile App Screens Calls With Brain Waves · · Score: 1

    So, what was she reading!?

  6. WiFi + Kindle HD on Ask Slashdot: Protecting Home Computers From Guests? · · Score: 1

    Anyone can use a Kindle.

  7. Police, Fire Brigade, Truncheon, Axe... on Cyber Criminals Tying Up Emergency Phone Lines Through TDoS Attacks, DHS Warns · · Score: 2

    I can think of various interesting ways to handle these idiots.

  8. Re:My answer on Fighting TSA Harassment of Disabled Travelers · · Score: 1

    Yup, the world is a big place and there are tons of nice places to go. Annoy a traveller, and he may never visit again and the country loses his foreign exchange for ever. I was refused entry into Holland decades ago and while I now hold a different citizenship, I have never bothered to to try to go there again. There are so many other, more interesting and friendlier places to visit. Who wants to see boring wind mills, stinking canals and dirty old Rembrands anyway?

  9. Re:Perhaps this is the intent, preventing expats on Fighting TSA Harassment of Disabled Travelers · · Score: 1

    "where they eat cow's stomachs and pig's ears" I think you are confusing Scotland with Spain...

  10. Unpatriotic Act on Fighting TSA Harassment of Disabled Travelers · · Score: 1

    Sorry buddy, but the USA is under a limited state of emergency and the constitution is partially suspended. Until the Patriot Act gets repealed, you should walk, not fly.

  11. Re:s/iu/ui/ on Is Eccentric Sven Olaf Kamphius To Blame For Spamhaus DDoS? · · Score: 1

    In Afrikaans Nederlands it is koeiuier. One less vowel.

  12. Re:There's already an age-group for that. on When Your Data Absolutely, Positively has to be Destroyed (Video) · · Score: 1

    ...or ship it by US Mail with a 'Fragile, Handle With Care' sticker on it.

  13. Re:get the magnets out on When Your Data Absolutely, Positively has to be Destroyed (Video) · · Score: 1

    That actually doesn't work. I tried it. I could not even erase a floppy disk with permanent magnets.

  14. Re:Mark it on When Your Data Absolutely, Positively has to be Destroyed (Video) · · Score: 1

    To really erase data magnetically, the degausser will probably warp the platters.

  15. Re:Sodium Hydroxide on When Your Data Absolutely, Positively has to be Destroyed (Video) · · Score: 1

    That is the MacBeth data erasure method: Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble...

  16. Ext2 would be better for the 'Bang Off' secure erase method.

  17. Not to mention that the 'DoD Standard' is a myth. They actually have different erase and destroy requirements depending on the media type, but none of them require 7 times over write, since that is just a waste of time. The worst iIknow of is a 3 times overwrite if you want to re-use magnetic media at the same (or higher) classification level.

  18. Done already: Prof Johannes Du Plessis (Pink Piet) on Creationist Bets $10k In Proposed Literal Interpretation of Genesis Debate · · Score: 1

    There already was a series of trials about the interpretation of Genesis in the town of Stellenbosch in South Africa, about 100 years ago. The literalists lost of course.

  19. Re:Like looking at the bottom of a swimming pool.. on Cosmic Microwave Background: Google Earth Style · · Score: 1

    Next time you dive into a pool, look up. That is even more lissajous.

  20. Re:Google spectrum database on Google Tests White Space Spectrum For School Broadband In South Africa · · Score: 1

    Uhm, with a RF spectrum analyzer?

  21. Re:Damn it, Google on Google Tests White Space Spectrum For School Broadband In South Africa · · Score: 1

    Well, the white having to make space, is part of black empowerment.

  22. Re:Mod SK up! on South Korea Backtracks On China As Source of Cyberattack · · Score: 1

    Yeah, this is probably also why the US military keeps complaining about Chinese hackers...

  23. Routable IPs on a LAN on South Korea Backtracks On China As Source of Cyberattack · · Score: 1

    So who is the joker that configured that bank's system? They probably have many other issues.

  24. Coal is a bio fuel on 'Energy Beet' Power Is Coming To America · · Score: 1

    And oil is probably also.

  25. Re:Topsoil-based fuels are wrongheaded in every wa on 'Energy Beet' Power Is Coming To America · · Score: 2

    You are right. One can make methanol from anything, including coal and gas. So we will never run out of liquid fuel. For example, South Africa has been synthesizing fuel from coal on a massive scale since the 1950s.